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Originally Posted by patriot2342001
More evidence that at the very least she lied! Read whole article though.
The Attorney General's investigation quickly turned up evidence that Palin's initial denials were false. Multiple members of her staff had raised Wooten's employment with Monegan. Indeed, the state police had a recording of one of her deputies pushing Monegan to fire Wooten. That evidence forced Palin to change her story. Palin said that this was the first she'd heard of it and insisted the deputy wasn't acting at her behest, even though the trascript of the recorded call clearly suggested that he was. (Hear the audio here.)
Just yesterday, Monegan gave an interview to the Washington Post in which he said that not only Palin's aides, but Palin's husband and Palin herself had repeatedly raised the Wooten issue with him and pressured him to fire him. And now he says he has emails that Palin sent him about the matter. (In an interesting sidelight, that may end up telling us a lot, Monegan says no one from the McCain campaign ever contacted him in the vetting process.)
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"Patriot", like you I find this appaling. While I accept that Palin is not guilty of "abuse of power" until the Alaska Legislature completes their investigation & then submitts the evidence to ascribed due process: I am disguested that McCain & gang would thrust her on the Nation without resolution of the matter.
I guess I am comming to realize that the Bush/McCain/Cheney bunch have come to see this type of "official abuse of office" as spoils of thier 2000 victory: and now McCain has fallen in step with that thinking.
Locally here in rural KY, no one is very interested in Palin: they can tell you all about American Idol & such, but they will take their political knowledge form the sound-bites & probably pull the lever based on home grown prejudice. I am not sure that a democracy that allows its citizens the leisure of becoming ignorant & disinterested in politics can possibly survive. Its sort of like the CEO of General Motors only likes to spend time & think about playing with his butterfly collection. ...pjwky
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